Computer Science Jobs with Work from Home Options

Computer Science
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 79 54
Rank change year-on-year +14 -25 +12
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 1,444 1,656 4,315
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.26% 4.10% 6.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 4.27% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,149 1,279 1,683
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,250 £48,750 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +2.78%
75th Percentile £78,750 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,750 £100,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,883 38,813 68,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,380 26,991 41,246
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Computer Science
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Computer Science trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Computer Science.

Computer Science salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Computer Science over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Computer Science salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.66%) IIS
3 15 (1.04%) OpenStack
4 14 (0.97%) Confluence
5 13 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.83%) Apache
7 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.55%) nginx
9 7 (0.48%) Moodle
9 7 (0.48%) WordPress
10 6 (0.42%) CMS
11 5 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.35%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.28%) OpenEdge
13 3 (0.21%) Luigi
14 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.14%) SAS
14 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.069%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.069%) Mule
Applications
1 43 (2.98%) Simulink
2 23 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Trello
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.14%) Sketch
6 2 (0.14%) Zeplin
7 1 (0.069%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.069%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.069%) InVision
7 1 (0.069%) Mathematica
7 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.069%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 14 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.62%) SAP CX
4 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.35%) Odoo
6 4 (0.28%) Magento
6 4 (0.28%) Shopify
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.069%) Endur
8 1 (0.069%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.069%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.069%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.069%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.069%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 365 (25.28%) Azure
2 339 (23.48%) AWS
3 101 (6.99%) GCP
4 93 (6.44%) Power Platform
5 69 (4.78%) SaaS
6 63 (4.36%) Serverless
7 61 (4.22%) Cloud Computing
8 59 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
9 58 (4.02%) GitHub
10 56 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
11 51 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (2.35%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.15%) Power Automate
14 26 (1.80%) Entra ID
15 24 (1.66%) Amazon S3
16 23 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (1.39%) Snowflake
18 18 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
19 15 (1.04%) Firebase
20 14 (0.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.53%) Wireless
2 48 (3.32%) Firewall
3 47 (3.25%) Network Security
4 34 (2.35%) TCP/IP
5 31 (2.15%) VPN
6 27 (1.87%) DNS
7 22 (1.52%) WAN
7 22 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (1.39%) LAN
9 19 (1.32%) Ethernet
10 18 (1.25%) DHCP
11 16 (1.11%) HTTP
12 14 (0.97%) Internet
12 14 (0.97%) VLAN
13 12 (0.83%) RS-232
14 11 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
14 11 (0.76%) SAN
15 10 (0.69%) BGP
16 9 (0.62%) MQTT
16 9 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (9.35%) SQL Server
2 90 (6.23%) Power BI
3 83 (5.75%) Relational Database
4 66 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (4.22%) Redis
6 57 (3.95%) MySQL
7 54 (3.74%) NoSQL
8 42 (2.91%) Big Data
9 35 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 28 (1.94%) Data Lake
11 23 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (1.04%) Hadoop
14 14 (0.97%) Tableau
15 13 (0.90%) BigQuery
16 12 (0.83%) MongoDB
16 12 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 11 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 155 (10.73%) Git
2 41 (2.84%) JIRA
3 28 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.59%) CMake
5 21 (1.45%) Visual Studio
6 18 (1.25%) Subversion
7 16 (1.11%) GitLab
7 16 (1.11%) Vagrant
8 14 (0.97%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.55%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.55%) GDB
9 8 (0.55%) JUnit
9 8 (0.55%) Selenium
10 7 (0.48%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.48%) Maven
10 7 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.35%) DTrace
12 5 (0.35%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 682 (47.23%) Social Skills
2 254 (17.59%) Finance
3 215 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (10.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 77 (5.33%) Marketing
6 66 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 59 (4.09%) Electronics
7 59 (4.09%) Legal
8 49 (3.39%) Games
9 48 (3.32%) Retail
10 46 (3.19%) Manufacturing
11 38 (2.63%) Telecoms
12 33 (2.29%) Military
13 30 (2.08%) Law
14 29 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
15 28 (1.94%) Tech for Good
16 26 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (1.73%) Automotive
18 19 (1.32%) Back Office
18 19 (1.32%) Banking
Job Titles
1 439 (30.40%) Developer
2 293 (20.29%) Senior
3 231 (16.00%) Software Engineer
4 113 (7.83%) Software Developer
5 106 (7.34%) Lead
6 97 (6.72%) Senior Developer
7 78 (5.40%) .NET Developer
7 78 (5.40%) Architect
8 77 (5.33%) Analyst
9 76 (5.26%) Junior
10 72 (4.99%) Graduate
11 71 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 49 (3.39%) Embedded Engineer
13 42 (2.91%) Consultant
14 41 (2.84%) Data Engineer
15 40 (2.77%) C# Developer
15 40 (2.77%) Full Stack Developer
15 40 (2.77%) Senior Software Developer
16 39 (2.70%) C++ Software Engineer
17 38 (2.63%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (18.01%) .NET
2 143 (9.90%) HTML
3 133 (9.21%) CSS
4 125 (8.66%) React
5 108 (7.48%) AngularJS
6 93 (6.44%) .NET Core
7 83 (5.75%) ASP.NET
8 79 (5.47%) Node.js
9 63 (4.36%) RESTful
10 57 (3.95%) REST
11 41 (2.84%) ASP.NET MVC
11 41 (2.84%) Vue
12 39 (2.70%) .NET Framework
13 37 (2.56%) Web Services
13 37 (2.56%) XML
14 34 (2.35%) Kafka
14 34 (2.35%) Laravel
15 33 (2.29%) SOAP
16 30 (2.08%) Spring
17 28 (1.94%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 159 (11.01%) Algorithms
2 130 (9.00%) Management Information System
3 123 (8.52%) Data Structures
4 115 (7.96%) Client/Server
5 62 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
6 51 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
7 50 (3.46%) Virtual Team
8 48 (3.32%) Data Centre
9 40 (2.77%) Product Ownership
10 31 (2.15%) IoT
10 31 (2.15%) Life Science
11 29 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.80%) Mobile App
13 25 (1.73%) Cloud Native
14 17 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.18%) Onboarding
15 16 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (1.04%) Blockchain
17 13 (0.90%) Hedge funds
17 13 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 196 (13.57%) Linux
2 143 (9.90%) Windows
3 52 (3.60%) Android
4 41 (2.84%) Apple iOS
5 33 (2.29%) Windows Server
6 24 (1.66%) Unix
7 22 (1.52%) Ubuntu
8 20 (1.39%) CentOS
9 19 (1.32%) Windows 10
10 18 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
12 10 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.55%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
15 4 (0.28%) SUSE
15 4 (0.28%) VxWorks
16 3 (0.21%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (39.68%) Software Engineering
2 511 (35.39%) Problem-Solving
3 412 (28.53%) Agile
4 221 (15.30%) DevOps
5 188 (13.02%) Artificial Intelligence
6 186 (12.88%) Mentoring
7 183 (12.67%) Mathematics
8 153 (10.60%) Analytics
8 153 (10.60%) CI/CD
9 152 (10.53%) Machine Learning
10 136 (9.42%) OOP
11 131 (9.07%) Roadmaps
12 123 (8.52%) Data Modelling
12 123 (8.52%) Project Management
13 119 (8.24%) Decision-Making
14 117 (8.10%) Business Intelligence
15 115 (7.96%) Full Stack Development
16 112 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 112 (7.76%) Design Patterns
17 111 (7.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 360 (24.93%) Python
2 327 (22.65%) SQL
3 319 (22.09%) C#
4 285 (19.74%) JavaScript
5 191 (13.23%) Java
6 123 (8.52%) C++
7 121 (8.38%) TypeScript
8 118 (8.17%) C
9 59 (4.09%) PHP
10 46 (3.19%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.70%) Embedded C
12 35 (2.42%) T-SQL
13 31 (2.15%) Go
14 27 (1.87%) Bash
14 27 (1.87%) Kotlin
15 24 (1.66%) Ruby
16 16 (1.11%) Scala
17 15 (1.04%) R
18 13 (0.90%) Rust
19 10 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,261 (87.33%) Degree
2 742 (51.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 208 (14.40%) Master's Degree
4 166 (11.50%) Security Cleared
5 115 (7.96%) SC Cleared
6 66 (4.57%) PhD
7 48 (3.32%) AWS Certification
8 45 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 43 (2.98%) CISSP
10 34 (2.35%) Azure Certification
11 27 (1.87%) DV Cleared
12 25 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (1.59%) PMI Certification
14 21 (1.45%) CISM
15 19 (1.32%) CCNA
16 18 (1.25%) PMP
17 17 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
18 15 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
19 12 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.68%) QA
2 28 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 21 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.45%) GDPR
4 18 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (0.97%) SLA
6 13 (0.90%) NIST
7 8 (0.55%) COBIT
8 7 (0.48%) DO-254
8 7 (0.48%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.42%) Web Application Security Consortium
10 5 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 4 (0.28%) ISO 13485
11 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.28%) PMO
11 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.21%) GRC
12 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 175 (12.12%) Docker
2 65 (4.50%) Firmware
3 50 (3.46%) Active Directory
4 24 (1.66%) Embedded Firmware
5 23 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (1.18%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.42%) KVM
9 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.21%) XenApp
11 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.069%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 127 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 80 (5.54%) Terraform
3 44 (3.05%) Ansible
4 17 (1.18%) Puppet
5 11 (0.76%) Grafana
6 10 (0.69%) ZABBIX
7 8 (0.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.42%) Nagios
9 6 (0.42%) SCCM
9 6 (0.42%) SCOM
9 6 (0.42%) WSUS
10 4 (0.28%) Nessus
10 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.21%) OfficeScan
12 2 (0.14%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.069%) yum
Vendors
1 233 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.57%) Google
3 45 (3.12%) SAP
4 36 (2.49%) Xilinx
5 32 (2.22%) Oracle
6 26 (1.80%) VMware
7 21 (1.45%) Cisco
8 16 (1.11%) Salesforce
9 14 (0.97%) IBM
10 13 (0.90%) NVIDIA
11 12 (0.83%) Adobe
11 12 (0.83%) Databricks
11 12 (0.83%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.55%) Juniper
13 7 (0.48%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.48%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.42%) Apple
14 6 (0.42%) Centreon
14 6 (0.42%) Citrix
14 6 (0.42%) Teradata